We kicked off our theme of the year, “Keep Stepping up, JEC!” at its first oneg! Each month, students will focus on stepping up and strengthening a specific midah! During the month of Elul, students will continue to step up their kavod, as they build upon last year’s theme of “On the Road of Kavod!” This year many new initiatives were added at the JEC Lower School to help the JEC kehillah continue to make the Torah they learned all week at school and over Shabbos come alive—to learn Torah, love Torah and live Torah each and every day. With a kumzitz added to Thursdays, Parsha and Pop on Fridays and a weekly Erev Shabbos publication, “The JEC Kehilati” going home, it is the hope that the magic of JEC is brought home to everyone’s Shabbos tables!